Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1887-08-12
MINOR NOTES.


but his party is IA bigger man than Mr.
Cleveland"
1t is estimated that the rich Americans
who cross the ocean spend about $ij, 600, 81
600 each year in England and on the CONT
nent.
The record of immigration for July at
Castle Garden was 81 900, and from Janu-
AIRY to August LIST it was 240 400. In last
months invasion the Germans were the
most numerous, Britishers next, and then
Scandinavians, Italians and Poles. With
few exceptions they were able-bodied and
self-supporting. More than half of them
were bound west.
Mrs. Mary A. Livermore will come to
Vermont the first Of September for lee
ture trip of three weeks. Terms, $2j, ex-
penses from last place, and entertainment
Any one wishing to engage Mrs. Livermore
for one of her popular lectures-not neces-
sarily upon temperance) can do so by apply
ing at once TO Mrs. b. P. Elmer, Lecture
Supt. Vt. w. c. T. u, Lower Cabot, Vt.
King Kalakaua of the Sandwich Islands
has signed the constitution, which deprives
him of all powers but that of drawing his
salary and granting pardons. The const-
tuition was signed July 10, and Gibson, the
deposed prime minister, has arrived at San
Francisco
In order to keep down the treasury sur
plus till Congress meets Secretary Fair
child offers to pay the interest on the and
Al per cent U. S. bonds up to the first of
next January now, with rebate of two
per cent, and invites proposals for the sale
to the government of Al per cent bonds
falling due in 1891. By this plan, if money
is tight, the surplus can be drawn upon for
relief. In interest alone S22 600, 600 may
thus be drawn.
President Cleveland can no longer claim
that no formal complaint has been made to
him of the conduct of the Baltimore office
holders. The reform league Of Baltimore
has made complaint to the president against
Naval Officer Rasin, Postmaster Brown,
Appointment Clerk Higgins, Indian lnspec-
tor Thomas, and Special Treasury Agent
Mahon, for their partisan performances.
j. P. Haynes of Galveston, Tex, col
ored student at Dartmouth college, has been
appointed demonstrator of anatomy at that
institution.
Southern justice About year ago one
Aaron Ingram in Lorain county, n. c., kill
ed a neghbor and fled. Nine months later
it was reported that he was in Rabun coun-
ty, Ga. A mob was organized, headed by
a North Carolina sheriff man seized who
who was supposed to be Ingram, lynched,
and his head cut off. About month age
the real Ingram was discovered in the In.
dian Territory, captured, brought back,
tried, and sentenced to seven months i'm.
prisonment.
The collapse of the great wheat ring al
San Francisco Cal, last week, has involv.
ed many spectators, and numerous failures
are looked for. The loss of the bull wheat
clique by the collapse is figured at from 81,
600, 600 to $4,000, 900.
A Kalamazoo, Mich, paper says that the
boom in divorce suits surpasses anything
ever before known at this season of the
year. An average of one day has beer
entered at the clerks office for some time
past. This is all owing to "A new and NOR,
stringent law which goes into effect Sept
26th.
The Floridians are gleeful. Not a day
they say, has been intolerably hot this sum
mer.
Probably the last revolutionary war pen
sion claim that will ever be filed at the pen
sion office was allowed by Commissioner
Black on the ID inst. The claimant is Mrs
Mary Casey of Washington, Fayette coun
ty, o. Her husband, John Casey, served
during the Revolution in the Virginia line
He died in 1915 at the age of 20. A few
years prior he was married to Mary Cox
then girl of 10.
The marine hospital bureau is informe,
that small pox and yellow fever are raging
in Havana, Cuba. During the month o
July there were 104 deaths from yellow fe
yer and 112 from small pox.
Gov. Ormsbee has issued an order statnl
that organizations belonging TO the nationa
guard of any of the states desiring to at
tend the Bennington celebration Aug 10Th
will be permitted to enter the state unde
arms without making formal application
| therefor.
The New York Daily Commercial Bullet
in fire record for July shows the fire loss il
the United States and Canada to have beef
Sl4, 800, against $lO0O0,OOO in July
1886, and $4,000, 900 in July, 1885 1t il
just double the average loss in July for tn
past ~ years.
Cincinnati has raised her guaranty fun,
of 81 100000 for the centennial exposi
ton of the Ohio valley and the centra
states" which is to be held there next year
and the work of erecting the exposition
building in Washington park will begin be
fore long.
In the New Hampshire legislature tn
Senate has killed the House bill providing
for premiums for the production of cereal
and other farm produce.
In England the reaction of public senti
ment in favor of Mr.. Gladstone has reach
ed point where the tories and liberal un
ionists are obliged to recognize and attemp
measures to counteract it.
Texas voted on a constitutional amend
ment for prohibition on Thursday of las
week, and defeated it by a majority of abou
100, 200. A despatch says that about 60 pc
cent of the negroes voted for prohibition
but the foreign element was PRACTICAL,
unanimous for rum, with the single excep
ton of the Swedes
The post-office department has refused +
name Nebraska post-ofice "Old Maid"
The attitude of the mugwumps was new
er more tersely or accurately describe,
than in the following from the N. Y. Trib
une Z" We are disposed, remarks the Bos
ton Herald, to thank the President TO
what he has done rather than to reproacl
him for what he has not done Precisely
precisely. And just 30 you are dispose,
to reproach the Republican party for VIVA
it has not done rather than to thank it TO
what it has done. And independence a
thus made manifest is something too goo,
for human natures daily food"
The imports of iron and steel for the iis
cal year of 1887 W ere heavier than in an,
other year except that of 1880.
Curtis Condensed.
Anybody who read the late civil service
reform address of Mr.. George William Cur